Art Therapy Studios

05/28/2026

05/23/2026

You’ve spent your life serving others. Now it’s your turn to be supported.

At Leg Up Farm, our Horses for Heroes program offers Equine Assisted Services designed specifically for veterans and first responders navigating stress, trauma, anxiety, burnout, and other mental health challenges.

Through guided, unmounted interactions with horses, participants build trust, connection, mindfulness, and resilience in a calm, supportive environment.

You are not alone, and healing can begin one step at a time.

Learn more and enroll today: https://www.legupfarm.org/equineassistedtherapies

05/22/2026

🎨 Looking for something different to do? 🎨

Join us for Craft Night at Sign of the Horse and create your own beautiful Japanese fabric art—Kinusaiga! No experience needed, so it’s perfect for beginners

🗓 June 23rd
⏰ 6:30–8:30PM
💲 $40 per person

🎟 Tickets available on Eventbrite
⚠️ Spots are limited, so grab yours before they’re gone!

Come sip, create, and leave with something you’re proud of 🧵🍻

📍 Sign of the Horse Brewery - Hanover

05/18/2026

You don’t have to choose between caring for others and caring for yourself. They’re deeply connected. Self-compassion provides the emotional resources needed to care for others without becoming drained.

If you would like to learn more, join me for a Self-Compassion for Caregivers workshop on Saturday, May 30th.
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This workshop will present theory and research on the key role that self-compassion plays for caregivers. A variety of practices will be taught that can help you maintain equilibrium in difficult caregiving situations. You will also explore how to meet your needs in a balanced and fulfilling manner.
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The workshop is relevant for the general public as well as professional caregivers.
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📆 Saturday, May 30th
⏰ 11:00 AM - 2:15 PM CT
📍 Zoom
📚 CE Credits available
💫 Self-Compassion Community annual members receive 25% off
💫 Register before May 16, 2026 and get 10% off at checkout

Register: https://vist.ly/54gwy
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05/15/2026

Trauma is a distortion of responsibility.

What I mean by that is this: when someone causes harm and does not take responsibility for it, that responsibility does not just disappear. Very often, the person who was hurt ends up carrying it.

Not consciously - nobody sits down and decides “this must be my fault.” But the mind needs things to make sense.

So if the person who hurt you denied it, minimized it, flipped it on you, or just never said a word about it - your brain starts filling in the blanks.

Maybe it was me.
Maybe I should have stopped it.
Maybe I should have known better.
Maybe I was too much.
Maybe I caused this somehow.

That’s the distortion - the responsibility landed on the wrong person.

And then it just becomes how you operate.

You over-apologize. You shrink yourself. You stay in things too long because part of you thinks you deserve it. You manage everyone’s emotions. You feel guilty for having needs. You assume you’re the problem in every conflict.

Because at some point your nervous system decided: if something goes wrong, that’s mine to fix.

Healing is learning to sort through it. What’s actually mine here? What’s theirs? What did I pick up because nobody else was going to? What am I still carrying out of habit?

Because you can’t put something down if you still believe it’s yours. And a lot of healing starts there - finally seeing that the weight was never yours to carry.

And then learning, slowly, to actually let your body believe it too.